QPR 2 MK Dons 4: Minnows humiliate top-flight outfit

WELL, don’t say that Harry Redknapp didn’t tell us. “It’s fair to say,” he
wrote in the match programme, “that progressing in the FA Cup is not at the
top of my list of priorities right now.” As this game went its humiliating
way for QPR — trailing Milton Keynes Dons by four goals for most of the
second half until the final minutes — attention was focused on Redknapp
having left out almost half his team, including Loic Remy, Shaun
Wright-Phillips, Adel Taarabt and Shaun Derry.

“I’ll go home with a raving hump,” Redknapp said. “A load of players have
knocked on my door and said they deserved a chance. Well, they got it and
they blew it.”

Long before the end the delighted MK supporters were jeering QPR, suggesting
that they would be going down with Aston Villa. Experienced defenders such
as Anton Ferdinand and Armand Traore made ludicrous mistakes